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The Blackhawk War BY HENRY LITTLE, 1875
His serene highness, Mr. Noonday, was a tall, straight, well-proportioned, well constructed specimen of the Nish-a-nob-bee race. He was reserved, solemn, demure, and dignified in his deportment.
Her ladyship, Mrs. Noonday, was a short, dumpy, unassuming lady of the old school. Nature had not seen fit to make her very attractive by the bewitching, fascinating charms of personal beauty, and what little there might have been of feminine comeliness in her features had been sadly marred by an ugly scar upon the left side of her face.
As my mind reverts back over the forty-four intervening years between that period of time and the present, a multitude of the curious interesting reminis-censes of those early times are called up, and come crowding upon my mind with such force that I find it difficult to dismiss them. This portion of our mundane sphere was then just awaking from its long repose of unknown ages, and was about to arise and don its artificial robes and ornaments.
If its early morning attire is so beautiful and lovely, what will be its noonday and its evening costume ?
In the month of June in every year, from 1812 to, 1834, the two last named tribes went to Maiden to receive from the British government their annuities for their services in that war.
All the while from 1830 to 1840 (when they were removed west) the most friendly and intimate relations existed between those Indians and ourselves.
They were a quiet, modest, peaceable, inoffensive people. They had so great an aversion to bodily exertions, and were so extremely indolent, that nothing1 but the prospect of immediate pinching want could arouse their dormant energies. We had a me-jash pa-lav-er (big talk) with the Pottawattomies and the Ottawas. They disclaimed having any knowledge of, or in any way respecting the Black Hawk war. They at the same time promised to make known to us any and all facts in regard to the matter which might come to their knowledge.
Michigan
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